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Wyoming

Another travel day… We took our time packing up and hitching up, and left the RV park about 10:00 am. We drove past Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and soon we were heading west on Interstate 70. We were quickly reminded that we are not in California anymore…

As we drove we were accompanied by several other caravaners…

We pulled off into the little town of Green River. Not surprisingly, the Green River passes through here…

The Green River originates in the high plains of Wyoming, and feeds into the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park, near Moab, Utah… We stopped here to see the Powell Museum…

The museum commemorates the journey and explorations of John Wesley Powell, who, in 1869, took several men and boats down the Green River and into the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon… We watched a video of the journey and saw many exhibits of the trip. Very interesting!

We continued our journey west, then south. This part of Utah is not covered in rocks…

But, course, soon we did find more rocks…

The road south went straight south… For miles and miles and miles…

We soon came to Capitol Reef National Park, one of the country’s newest National Parks… We saw many of the same type of rock formations that we had seen before…

One difference is that we were much closer to them…

We did not stop – there will be time for that tomorrow. Soon we arrived at the RV park in Torrey, Utah…

We enjoyed dinner at the Cafe Diablo, dining outside amongst the trees, with another caravan couple from New Jersey…

We left Crooked Creek RV Park at about 8:00 am, in the very, very cold… We traveled north through Hill City, then Deadwood; we turned west and crossed over into Wyoming.

The drive was easy, uneventful, and a little boring…

Then we turned towards the north and on the horizon we could see snow-capped mountains, off to the west:

As we continued north, towards Montana, we saw more…

The actual views were better than these photos show…

We crossed over into Montana:

And we headed into Billings, MT. We stopped of at Costco to stock up on Kirkland Vita Rain bottled water (fake Vitamin Water, with even fewer vitamins than real Vitamin Water…) We have been looking for these since New Brunswick and Nova Scotia – none of the Costcos we found carried it. I have had to substitute real Vitamin Water, and it is a poor substitute…

So we happily checked into the RV park; again we were exhausted – it was a long day… almost 400 miles, almost double of our preferred pace. But there was no reason to stop any sooner; tomorrow we move to Bozeman.